Most certainly, one exceeds all bounds once they think they are self-sufficient. Qur’an 96: 6-7 Secularism is a legitimation and system of fetishization. Fetishization is the process wherein that which is man-made appears to be absolute, divine, and closed. I want to focus on this last feature – closure – as it is the hallmark…

All praise is for Allah—Lord of all worlds,1 In describing our existential situation, Martin Heidegger speaks of man as being-in-the-world. I am not referring to the world as that physical-temporal object that is external to the mind. Rather, “The world is what we perceive.” In other words, the nature of the world in which we…

One could almost say that, wherever nobody is talking about power, that is where it unquestionably exists, at once secure and great in its unquestionability. Wherever power is the subject of discussion, that is the start of its decline.’ Beck, Power in the Global Age, p. 57. To understand power, Byung-Chul Han gives us the…

وَمَا الْحَيَاةُ الدُّنْيَا إِلَّا مَتَاعُ الْغُرُورِ “…The present world is only an illusory pleasure…” Guy Debord speaks of the commodity as having colonized social life, leaving man not with an authentic social life but one beset with illusory images and false representations. It is, through commodification, the “colonization of social life.” I want to suggest…

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The people will soon summon one another to attack you as people when eating invite others to share their dish. Someone asked: Will that be because of our small numbers at that time? He replied: No, you will be numerous at that time: but you will be scum like that carried…